Senior Reviewer, Wearable Tech
Victoria Song reviews all things wearables and fitness tech for The Verge.
Before coming to The Verge, she'd been yammering on about this space—and other consumer tech—for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. When not nerding out over gadgets, she can be found on the couch binging the latest K-dramas.
November’s Pixel Watch update is here to address last month’s botched Wear OS 5 rollout for older devices, but the curious thing is the update note says the next one is months away:
Pixel Watch 1, Pixel Watch 2, and Pixel Watch 3 devices will receive the November 2024 software update, with the next update planned for March 2025.
It’s odd since Google generally pushes out an update every month. There’s also simply no reason given. Well, a lot can happen in four months.
Unsurprising. Oura also found that there was a 2.3 percent increase in stressed minutes, a 19.5 percent decrease in restorative time and heart rates were 3.7 percent higher.
My own Oura data shows that I had 4 hours 30 minutes of stress on election day and eight whole hours of stress processing the results yesterday.
If you’re a runner, chances are you’ve seen Matt Choi on your FYP. The popular influencer got disqualified from the New York City Marathon for having assistants on e-bikes filming footage of him during the race. This isn’t the first time Choi has done this and he’s been banned from future NYRR races.
There’s nothing wrong with memorializing your marathon. But maybe just stick to your phone.
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